William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt chief, ex-stock swindler and metaphysician, calmly informed the Dies committee and a hushed roomful of spectators today that he advocated “disenfranchising te ...

Charles A. Beard, noted historian, after the reputed statement had been printed in William Dudley Pelley’s Silver Shirt organ “Liberation” and reproduced elsewhere in the United States and ...

Few have been more vitriolic than goat-bearded William Dudley Pelley, leader of The Silvershirt Legion of America. Last June, one of the Committee’s investigators, Robert B. Barker, investigated ...